Week 70 - 12/16/18 - Group Email

Hey everyone we had a pretty eventful week! 
Last p-day we went hiking again and it was my comps first time ever summiting a mountain so I was happy to be apart of that! Nothing better than a summit view. At the bottom near the train station there is a way cool statue that we found! I'll send pics. 

The other day I got rice out of the container and noticed a little fly in there so I looked in the bin and saw a ton of little white maggots in the rice. It was DISGUSTING! We had been using that rice everyday so who knows how many maggots we ate... 

I love doing wheelies on my bike and have done them every now and then during my mission but the other day I popped one too hard and my foot got stuck on the peddle so I ate it pretty hard flat onto my back haha. My comp was also right behind me so he slammed my bike and took a spill too. Ooops. I kinda broke my seat and ripped my pants but besides that we were all good! and no one saw ;) 

My throat has been bothering me so I looked up the nearest ear nose and throat doctor 耳鼻科 in japanese and clicked on one nearby that popped up. We went there and after waiting 45 minues I finally got in. I told the doctor my throat hurts and he was like you mean your neck? I'm like no my throat and opened my mouth. He looked in my mouth and then said well this is a dermatologist so we only do skin. lol. I felt so dumb. Doctors related to ear nose and throat popped up on my map apparently so I learned I gotta double check better ha. 

We had quite a few lessons this week that all went pretty well! Our new Vietnamese investigator said during his lesson that he doesn't know why but he feels something telling him that he needs to keep learning about our church. It was way cool! We were able to testify and explain that that is the Holy Ghost. He has a ton of potential! 

Some other things:

- My comp experienced cold hands for the first time in his life the other day. He's from the Philippines so he's never had to worry about that. His hands were numb and he was getting all worried that something was wrong lol. I was dying. 
- I finished reading all of the conference talks that Pres. Nelson has given since hs became a general authority. It was really cool to see all of the things he has taught and the repeated themes in his talks. He's definitely a prophet of God! "Perfection Pending" oct. 1995 and "The Creation" apr. 2000 are two of my favorites. 
- We met a guy who said he has been to the spirit world and met God. He said during an operation for his cancer he floated above his body and flew all around the world. We offered him a Book of Mormon but he said he literally know everything so he has no need to read it lol. It was a very bizarre conversation. 
- I finished the Book of Mormon for the 5th time since I've been out! 
- We met an old guy who was 88 and thought I was 35. When I told him I'm 20 he made the funniest face and looked like he saw a ghost or something haha. It was really funny. 
- We had our ward Christmas party the other day and tons of people came. We were able to introduce the Book of Mormon to a number of people who seemed quite interested. It's fun to see people interact with members and feel the light of Christ. The church really is a completely different environment from other places in Japan that has a very special light about it! 

Well that's about it. I hope you are all enjoying the Christmas season! 

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